Home of the Brave (2004 film)
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93% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Documentary Duration Language English | 6.9/10 Director Paola di Florio Screenplay Paola di Florio Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 2004 (2004) Initial release October 29, 2004 (New York City) Music director Karen Childs, David Powell Similar movies What Happened, Miss Simone? , I Will Dance , Breath of Freedom , Ghosts of Ole Miss , Nefarious: Merchant of Souls , Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria Tagline |
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Home of the Brave is a 2004 documentary film about Viola Liuzzo, an American anti-racist activist during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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- Home of the brave official trailer 1 samuel l jackson movie 2006 hd
- Home of the brave trailer
- Description
- Production
- Critical reception and review
- References
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Description
A white housewife and mother of five children, Viola Liuzzo felt called to action by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and left her Michigan home to work in Alabama with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1965. While serving as a volunteer during the historic Selma to Montgomery marches, Liuzzo was shot dead by members of the Ku Klux Klan. The film is an historical account of her life presented in a montage of archival footage, narrated by the actress Stockard Channing and laced with extensive interviews of Liuzzo's family members and contemporaries.
Production
Home of the Brave was written, directed, and co-produced by Paola di Florio. The 75-minute film was released by Emerging Pictures in late 2004.
Critical reception and review
Home of the Brave was nominated for the 2004 IDA Award by the International Documentary Association, and was selected for competition at that year's Sundance Festival.
It was nominated for the Documentary Screenplay Award by the Writers Guild of America in 2005, and was one of the films featured at the first annual Traverse City Film Festival in 2005.
References
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